Corkman pretended to be father of baby born to foreign-national to obtain birth cert and passport

Cork District Court heard the accused was a vulnerable man who acted with empathy towards the mother and child and did not benefit financially or in any other respect from his actions.

 A 64-year-old man pretended to be the father of a baby born to a non-national woman in Cork in successful applications for a birth cert and a passport for the infant that had the knock-on effect of enabling the infant’s mother to bring other members of her family to live in Ireland.

As the man faced sentencing on Wednesday at Cork District Court, barrister William Bulman stressed that the accused was a vulnerable man who acted with empathy towards the mother and child and did not benefit financially or in any other respect from his actions.